Download or read book Thomas Boone Pickens 1928 written by Lois K. Nix and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomas Boone Pickens 1928 written by Mary Kay Snell and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Boone Pickens (1928- ), the son of Thomas Boone Sibley Pickens (1897-1988) and Grace Marcaline Molonson (1900-1977), was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. He is a descendent of families including Pickens, Cross, Calhoun, Boone, Bohun, and Molonson.
Download or read book Summary of T Boone Pickens s The First Billion Is the Hardest written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-13T22:59:00Z with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I have always been drawn to risk, and I’ve taken it at every point in my life. I was born in 1928 in a railroad town in eastern Oklahoma, and grew up with a family that was hardworking, self-sufficient, and honest. #2 I had to learn to sit on my bottom, as my grandmother often told me. I had to give back a dollar I had found on the street because my mother, grandmother, and aunt said that I wasn’t supposed to be paid to be honest. #3 When I was with Phillips Petroleum, I was working with three geologists and a couple of engineers on a joint interest well. I was making $5,000 a year. One of the geologists asked me what I would sign up for if I could lock in a salary right now for the rest of my life. I had a wife and two kids by then, and wanted to ensure that they were comfortable. #4 I worked for Phillips Petroleum in Oklahoma, and after three years, five months, and twenty-one days, I quit. I was 26 years old, and I had to make a living. I was not going to get rich working for $75 a day. But if I could put enough deals together, I could make a decent living.
Download or read book The First Billion Is the Hardest written by T. Boone Pickens and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Never Too Late to Top Your Personal Best. Both a riveting account of a life spent pulling off improbable triumphs and a report back from the front of the global-energy and natural-resource wars, The First Billion Is the Hardest tells the story of the remarkable late-life comeback that brought the famed oilman and maverick back from bankruptcy and clinical depression. Along the way, the man often called the “Oracle of Oil” shares the insights that have made him a legend–and describes the billion-dollar bets he is now making in hopes of securing America’s energy independence. “Sassy...breezes along...salted with earthy aphorisms.”—Bloomberg Businessweek “Boone’s analysis of America’ s energy situation is 100 percent on the money....The country should listen to him– now!” —Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO, Berkshire Hathaway “Self-deprecating and audacious...overall, it’s decidedly informative about the machinations of business.” –Dallas Morning News “A fascinating, eye-opening book by one of America’s greatest iconoclasts and entrepreneurs. Boone Pickens’ sense of daring and innovation has never been sharper.”–Steve Forbes, president and CEO, Forbes Inc., and editor in chief of Forbes magazine
Download or read book The Weekly Standard People written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: P. J. O'Rourke, T. Boone Pickens, Charles Krauthammer, Tucker Carlson, David Frum, William Kristol, David Brooks, Brit Hume, John Podhoretz, Steven F. Hayward, Philip Terzian, Robert Kagan, The Weekly Standard, Matt Labash, David Gelernter, Christopher Caldwell, Stephen F. Hayes, Jonathan V. Last, John DiIulio, Fred Barnes, Joseph Epstein, Mary Katharine Ham, Stanley Kurtz, Irwin Stelzer, Henry Payne, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Michael Goldfarb, Matthew Continetti, Andrew Ferguson, Victorino Matus, Claudia Anderson. Excerpt: Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. (born May 22, 1928), known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American financier who chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. With an estimated current net worth of about $1.4 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 328th-richest person in America and ranked 879th in the world. Pickens was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma. His father worked as an oil and mineral landman (rights leaser). During World War II, his mother ran the local Office of Price Administration, rationing gasoline and other goods in four counties. Pickens was the first child born via Caesarean section in the history of Holdenville hospital. At age 12, Pickens delivered newspapers. He quickly expanded his paper route from 28 papers to 156. Pickens later cited his boyhood job as an early introduction to "expanding quickly by acquisition," a business practice he favored later in life. When the oil boom in Oklahoma ended in the late 1930s, Pickens' family moved to Amarillo, Texas. Pickens never served in the military but instead attended Texas A&M on a basketball scholarship, but he lost the scholarship and transferred to Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University), where he majored in Geology. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon...
Download or read book The Last Trial of T Boone Pickens written by Chrysta Castañeda and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T. Boone Pickens, legendary Texas oilman and infamous corporate raider from the 1980s, climbed the steps of the Reeves County courthouse in Pecos, Texas in early November 2016. He entered the solitary courtroom and settled into the witness stand for two days of testimony in what would be the final trial of his life. Pickens, who was 88 by then, had made and lost billions over his long career, but he’d come to Pecos seeking justice from several other oil companies. He claimed they cut him out of what became the biggest oil play he’d ever invested in—in an oil-rich section of far West Texas that was primed for an unprecedented boom. After years of dealing with the media, shareholders and politicians, Pickens would need to win over a dozen West Texas jurors in one last battle. To lead his legal fight, he chose an unlikely advocate—Chrysta Castañeda, a Dallas solo practitioner who had only recently returned to the practice of law after a hiatus borne of disillusionment with big firms. Pickens was a hardline Republican, while Castañeda had run for public office as a Democrat. But they shared an unwavering determination to win and formed a friendship that spanned their differences in age, politics, and gender. In a town where frontier justice was once meted out by Judge Roy Bean—“The Law West of the Pecos”—Pickens would gird for one final courtroom showdown. Sitting through trial every day, he was determined to prevail, even at the cost of his health. The Last Trial of T. Boone Pickens is a high-stakes courtroom drama told through the eyes of Castañeda. It’s the story of an American business legend still fighting in the twilight of his long career, and the lawyer determined to help him make one final stand for justice.
Download or read book Stock and Commodity Market Managers written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Michael Milken, John Templeton, T. Boone Pickens, Peter Schiff, Mario Gabelli, Kenneth C. Griffin, Chris Gardner, Peter Thiel, Mark Spitznagel, James Harris Simons, Henry Kravis, Kenneth Fisher, John E. Madden, Victor Niederhoffer, Jim Rogers, Steven A. Cohen, David Tepper, Julian Robertson, Victor Sperandeo, Louis Bacon, John W. Henry, Peter Lynch, Stanley Druckenmiller, James O'Shaughnessy, Michael Marcus, Richard Dennis, Jean-Louis Levesque, Stephen A. Schwarzman, Dennis Levine, Ed Seykota, L. Brooks Leavitt, Richard Farleigh, Bruce Kovner, Blair Hull, Barton Biggs, Bill Lipschutz, Ivan Boesky, Larry Hite, David Rocker, Toby Crabel, Manuel P. Asensio, Joe Ritchie, Arthur W. Cutten, Robert E. Brennan, Robert M. Fomon, James R. Keene, Edward Lampert, Jack Speiden, Richard Donchian, Frederick H. Prince, Mark Ritchie, Thomas W. Lawson, Richard Driehaus, Ricardo Cortez, David Lucca, Anne Dias-Griffin, Daniel S. Loeb, Arthur Deane Nesbitt, Abigail Johnson, Martin Zweig, Arthur James Nesbitt, Joseph Parnes, Charles Hayden, David Ryan, William Eckhardt, Jeff Yass, Martin S. Schwartz, Monroe Trout, Jules Bache, Edward Francis Hutton, Harry W. Lange, Elaine Garzarelli, James E. Stowers, John Rhoads, Tom Baldwin, Eric Sprott, Edward Johnson, III, John Fitzwilliam Stairs, Mohnish Pabrai, Tom Basso, Galen L. Stone, Fayez Sarofim, Eugene C. Cashman, Charles Biderman, William A. Paine, Thomas Peterffy, Monty Guild, James Henry Gundy, Linda Bradford Raschke, Ward C. Pitfield, Jr., Gil Blake, Herbert Allen, Jr., Mark E. Kingdon, Robert E. Pardo, Joseph L. Searles III, George Herbert Wood. Excerpt: Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. (born May 22, 1928), known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American financier who chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. With an...
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry written by Marius S. Vassiliou and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The petroleum industry is unique: it is an industry without which modern civilization would collapse. Despite the advances in alternative energy, petroleum’s role is still central. Petroleum still drives economics, geopolitics, and sometimes war. The history of petroleum is, to some measure, the history of the modern world. This book represents a concise but complete one-volume reference on the history of the petroleum industry from pre-modern times to the present day, covering all aspects of business, technology, and geopolitics. The book also presents an analysis of the future of petroleum, and a highly useful set of statistical graphs. Anyone interested in the history, status, and outlook for petroleum will find this book a uniquely valuable first place to look. This new second edition incorporates all the revolutionary changes in the petroleum landscape since the first edition was published, including the boom in extraction of oil and gas from shale formations using techniques such as fracking and horizontal drilling. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Petroleum Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on companies, people, events, technologies, countries, provinces, cities, and regions related to the history of the world’s petroleum industry. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the petroleum industry.
Download or read book The Luckiest Guy in the World written by Thomas Boone Pickens and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Business and finance leader, corporate investor, and champion of shareholders' rights."
Download or read book The Titans of Takeover written by Robert Slater and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story told in The Titans of Takeover is that of the corporate raiders - the men who in the 1980s discovered great financial opportunities in seizing control of someone else's business, often at bargain prices. With millions of dollars at stake, these raiders aroused massive public attention and, depending on point of view, were for a while either the villains or the saviors of American business. The book looks not only at the raiders, but also at other featured players in the takeover game: the investment bankers, attorneys, and arbitragers. Profiled in these pages are the leading figures in the American takeover field, including T. Boone Pickens, Carl Icahn, Saul Steinberg, and Ted Turner as well as such behind-the-scenes personalities as lawyers Martin Lipton and Joseph Flom, investment bankers Joseph Perella and Bruce Wasserstein, and arbitrager Ivan Boesky. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Prize written by Daniel Yergin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.
Download or read book The Kingdom Life Approach written by Willie Thomas Butler and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the stark contrast between the Kingdom of God and the economic, political and social systems we live by every day. The world's systems have led us down a primrose path to nowhere, encouraging the pursuit of wealth and the so-called good life while ignoring the need for a morally-based and purpose-driven approach to living. The Kingdom Life Approach provides viable and alternative strategies to how we conduct our lives to achieve true, meaningful prosperity. It establishes a purpose for living that is predicated on individual assignments and an emerging church that true believers in Christ are building. Christians must change and become emissaries and a perfected church in order for Christ's Kingdom to be seen in the earth. How we live and what we pursue in life are transformational values we must demonstrate to the world. Choosing to manage our financial affairs the Kingdom way is central to this process. Willie Thomas Butler is founder and President of Kingdom Seed Foundation and its educational division, The Life Planning Institute. With over twenty years in the financial services profession, Butler has served as a Certified Financial Planner(TM)(1986-2001), Registered Investment Adviser and Financial Consultant with Salomon Smith Barney and Merrill Lynch. He also served in several Christian organizations as a board member, adviser, development officer and fundraiser. Butler authored his first book True Prosperity in 1997 and established LPI to provide an educational curriculum combined with practical training in Biblical Stewardship and money management. LPI offers courses and workshops promoting a Kingdom approach to life planning for those wanting to serve God using every resource entrusted to them. Butler is a graduate of Regent University with a master of arts in public policy and holds a bachelors of science in business management from Adelphi University. He is also a graduate of the Institute for Financial Planning in New York.
Download or read book New Book Real Messages of God I Ii Iii written by Dwayne W. Anderson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be Certain there are Patterns in Life & Death!~’ Patterns so obvious that the Mind cannot Escape Them!~’ These Patterns lead down a Narrow Path to an Awakening of an Understanding that will Illuminate Mankind’s Existence for the Rest of GOD’s Current Creation’s Existence of Time!!!~’ From how We’re Born, Where We’re Born, Who We Marry, How Many Kids We will Have; and, Most Importantly; to How and When We are going to Die!!!~’ This Book Unlocks the PATTERNS and FORMULAS to All of these Eventualities along with the Help Aids of the Previous (`-2) / (`-3) Books in Series of the Prophet!!!~’ Really, Enjoy the READ!~’
Download or read book The Book of Investing Wisdom written by Peter Krass and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1999-03-19 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Es gibt zwar viele lehrreiche Bücher über Geschäftsweisheiten, aber nur wenige bekannte Investoren haben ihr Erfolgsgeheimnis tatsächlich gelüftet. Dieses Buch ist eine Anthologie bestehend aus 50 Essays und Reden von so schillernden Größen wie z. B. Charles Dow, B.C. Forbes, Peter Lynch und George Soros: In einem Band: Geschäftsweisheiten aus mehreren Jahrzehnten von der Crème de la Crème! Die verschiedenen Persönlichkeiten der Investoren und deren Umfeld wird deutlich durch ihren Sprachstil. Zu jeder Persönlichkeit gibt es als Vorwort einleitende Informationen über deren jeweiligen Hintergrund. Nach Themen gegliedert, erlaubt es dem Leser sich bequem auf bestimmte Informationen oder Ratschläge zu konzentrieren. Zu den behandelten Themen gehören u.a.: Die richtige Einstellung für erfolgreiche Investitionen, Theorie und Strategie, Marktzyklen und -verhalten, etc. Es bietet ein leserfreundliches Layout mit Fettdruck der besten Zitate, einen Namensindex aller zu Wort gekommenen Investoren sowie einen chronologischen Index. Die ideale Lektüre für alle in der Investmentbranche. (02/99)
Download or read book Woody Guthrie American Radical written by Will Kaufman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Joe Klein's Woody Guthrie and Ed Cray's Ramblin' Man capture Woody Guthrie's freewheeling personality and his empathy for the poor and downtrodden, Kaufman is the first to portray in detail Guthrie's commitment to political radicalism, especially communism. Drawing on previously unseen letters, song lyrics, essays, and interviews with family and friends, Kaufman traces Guthrie's involvement in the workers' movement and his development of protest songs. He portrays Guthrie as a committed and flawed human immersed in political complexity and harrowing personal struggle. Since most of the stories in Kaufman's appreciative portrait will be familiar to readers interested in Guthrie, it is best for those who know little about the singer to read first his autobiography, Bound for Glory, or as a next read after American Radical.
Download or read book Lone Star Nation written by Richard Parker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most Americans, Texas has been that love-it-or-hate it slice of the country that has sparked controversy, bred presidents, and fomented turmoil from the American Civil War to George W. Bush. But that Texas is changing—and it will change America itself.Richard Parker takes the reader on a tour across today's booming Texas, an evolving landscape that is densely urban, overwhelmingly Hispanic, exceedingly powerful in the global economy, and increasingly liberal. This Texas will have to ensure upward mobility, reinvigorate democratic rights, and confront climate change—just to continue its historic economic boom. This is not the Texas of George W. Bush or Rick Perry.Instead, this is a Texas that will remake the American experience in the twenty-first century—as California did in the twentieth—with surprising economic, political, and social consequences. Along the way, Parker analyzes the powerful, interviews the insightful, and tells the story of everyday people because, after all, one in ten Americans in this century will call Texas something else: Home.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West written by Steven L. Danver and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 1566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West is an A to Z reference work on the political development of one of America’s most politically distinct, not to mention its fastest growing, region. This work will cover not only the significant events and actors of Western politics, but also deal with key institutional, historical, environmental, and sociopolitical themes and concepts that are important to more fully understanding the politics of the West over the last century.
